Thank Jebulba for Ticketmaster updates, because tonight, this is what I saw:
Toadies
Majestic Theatre, Detroit, MI
Fri, Oct 17, 2008 08:00 PM
That's right, **** they're back!!!
I'll tell you guys, you have NEVER gotten a lap-dance until you request this song. The whole bar will go crazy.
Ok, so they never really left. After the relase of Rubberneck in 1994, the band put forth a second album, Hell Below, Stars Above, in 2001.
I am not ashamed to admit I saw them once on their Rubberneck tour, and twice on their Hell Below/Stars Above tour. 8)
While touring for their second album, founding member and bassist Lisa Umbarger quit. Between a lack of support from their label and the loss of a member, the Toadies stopped dead in their tracks.
The members split into various careers, with frontman Vaden Todd Lewis (that's him signing my bass in my desktop picture, along with former bassist Lisa Umbarger) singing for a new band, The Burden Brothers. Go ahead, click on that link and partake in the awesomeissity that is BB. I'll wait. No, really, they're that good.
While the Burden Brothers are on hiatus, the Toadies got back together to record a new album, No Deliverance (hear the title track here, at their site).
Tonight's e-mail confirmed my prayers: they're coming to Detroit. And thus, the story's circle is complete.
Toadies : Man of Stone (new)
For those interested in more, here is some current press, and older videos:
Some Current Press
Spin - with Duffy on the cover - includes a bit about Toadies reforming, along with My Bloody Valentine, Killing Joke, YAZ etc
STL Today
Sun Herald
SA Current
Goldin****cs blog
Guide Live
Live Daily
Riverfront Times
Older Videos
"Tyler": a song that most Toadies fans consider to be infinitely more awesome than "Possum Kingdom."
"Away": their third best song on Rubberneck, after "Tyler," and "I Come From the Water."